A WRINKLE IN TIME x AMERICAN GODS
When an attack at a nursing home awakens a sleeping goddess, she leads teenage Cassie Quinn on a search through the forgotten corners of America to find her lost selves and stop an enigmatic evil from destroying the world.
#SFFPit#YA#F#CF#DF
Happy Thankful Thursday!!
Thank you for being here! Thank you for sharing your journey with us! And most of all, thank you for being you.
#MoveMePoetry#poetrycommunity#poetry
Eight years ago, Apocalypse was released π
All the episodes, weekly catch-ups and even the full movie are all on my YouTube channel if you want to watch it. It's low (no) budget, but the story is good.
My acting is much better now of course! lol
a series of dirty writing tricks and brain hacks I learned in my MFA program that save my life on a weekly basis, because I have lots of thoughts about the usefulness of the workshop model but these things were objectively helpful: π§΅
Thereβs a concerted movement in this country to pull books from shelves, to ban them from being taught, and to shut down libraries, and that alone should tell you how important books are. Read a book to annoy a fascist.
Hereβs a recent story that appeared in Slate Magazine this year, βThe Woman Who Wanted to Be Trees.β Let me know what you thought!
https://buff.ly/3Lejhs4
Before you decide to quit writing, take a minute to appreciate how far you've come. Even if you're not where you want to be, you've come further than where you started. Remember why you first decided to write, and realize that you're closer than you think. You can go further.
@MoveMePoetry#TeachMeTuesday#Movers
Try a cinquain - 5 line poem with syllable counts (American) or numbers of words exploring a subject (Didactic). Have fun!
A lesson Iβve learned as an (almost) debut author is that you donβt need *everyone* to love your book, what you need is to find the people who do. Theyβre your future readers.
Not everyone will get it. Not everyone will like it. But when people doβ¦ ahhh, itβs the best βΊοΈπ
Writing is my life. It gets me out of bed in the morning. I am so lucky to have a passion that gives me a sense of purpose. No matter what life throws at me, until my last day I will be having fun with words.
When Australian farmer Ben Jackson couldnβt attend his Auntβs funeral in 2021 due to Covid restrictions, he laid out grain for his Sheep in the shape of a heart in order βthat she could see it through the cloudsβ.
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Writers who are generous with their time and experience to help out other writers are the BEST! You find out quickly on here which people are intent only on using you and which are genuinely kind and encouraging and interested in as many of us succeeding as possible. π
The #RunLikeAWolf race ends soon & I am in 49th place of 695 participants. I had no idea I could walk/run 100 miles in a month, so yay.
AND I love supporting wolf conservation. πππ
Thank you
reading a book is its own form of magic because you start to see how other people have grappled with the same hurts and heartaches and then you donβt feel so alone.